 Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright, and coy; We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, Still it eludes us, and it glitters still : If seiz'd at last, compute your mighty gains ; What is it, but rank poison...  Continental Adventures: A Novel ... - 70 ページCharlotte Anne Waldie Eaton 著 - 1826全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 420 ページ
...our own. Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright, and coy\ We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, Still it...mighty gains; What is it, but rank poison in your veins ? As FLAVIA in her glass an angel spies, Pride whispers in her ear pernicious lyes ; Tells her, while... | |
 | 1803 - 468 ページ
...and coy; We strive to grasp it with out utmost snill, Still it eludes us, and it glitters still; It seiz'd at last, compute your mighty gains; What is it but rank poison in your veins i As Flavia in her glass an angel spies, Pride whispers in her ear pernicious lies; l'ounj.JL u Tells... | |
 | Edward Young - 1805 - 232 ページ
...own. Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright and coy ; We starve to grasp it with our utmost skill, Still it eludes...mighty gains : What is it but rank poison in your veins ? As Flavia in her glass an angel spies, Pride whispers in her ear pernicious lies ; Tells her, while... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 424 ページ
...quick-silver, is bright and coy : We strive to grasp it, with our utmost skill ; Still it duties MS, and it glitters still ; If seiz'd at last, compute...gains : What is it, but rank poison in your veins ? in order to be free from interruption, to an obscure place in the suburbs. His director hearing no... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 420 ページ
...illustrative : Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quick-lihcr, is bright and coy: We strive to grasp it, with our utmost skill ; Still it eludes us, and it g litters still ; Tf seiz'd at last, compute your mighty gains : What is it, but rank poison in your... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 ページ
...our own. Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright and tay j We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, Still it...mighty gains; What is it, but rank poison in your veins ? As Flavia in her glass an angel spies, Pride whispers in her ear pernicious lies; Tells her, while... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 ページ
...We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill. Still it elndes us, and it glitters still : If seia'd at last, compute your mighty gains ; What is it but rank poison in your veins t Aa Flavia in her glass an angel spies, Pride whispers in her ear pernicious lies ; Tells her, while... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 ページ
...Pleasure, like quicksilver, 'ч bright, and coy ; We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, Stilt it eludes us, and it glitters still : If seiz'd at...gains ; What is it, but rank poison in your veins • As Flavia in her glass an angel spies, Pride whispers in her ear pernicious lies ; Tells her, while... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 ページ
...hecause it is our own. Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is hright, and coy ; \Ve strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, ' Still it eludes us, and it glitters still: If s«iz'd at last, compute your mighty gains ; What is it, hut rank poison in your veins • As Flavia... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 ページ
...our own. Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like irattksilvtr, is bright, and coy; We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, Still it eludes us, and it glitters still : tf SGNE'd at last, compute your mighly gains ; What is it, but rank poison in your veins r As Flavia... | |
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